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DragonByte Technologies are proud to present vBShout v6: The most advanced, most feature-rich and most professional Shoutbox ever.

Uses
vBShout is the ideal way to keep members on your forum while they wait for replies to their posts. It can be used in many ways - as a chat room for members, for staff to discuss issues in realtime, as a live-update feed of new posts and threads, as a way to track member milestones... Best of all, you can have multiple boxes in use for multple purposes!

Resource Optimisation: vBShout implements an Advanced Optimisation Protocol to save your forum resources. Enabling this will further reduce the amount of resources consumed by the shoutbox. AOP was originally featured in Inferno vBShout, and DBTech vBShout takes it to the next level by ensuring that all your chats are always up-to-date without taking up needless amount of resources.

Customisable New Post / Thread Notifications: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.

Shoutbox Tabs: New PM's or User Chat Rooms create Tabs. Tabs will highlight to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.

Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.

Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus – less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.

Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. – perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!

Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox specific to those areas.

Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)

Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and allows you to search previous shouts.

Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every action taken.

Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.

Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.

Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.

Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.

Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.

Blog Integration: Give blogs a more prominent place on your forum by having the Shoutbox post notifications when someone posts a new blog or comments on a blog.

Professional Only benefits:

Personal User Shoutbox Options: Integrated with User CP, User gets to decide which things show on their shoutbox, PM's, notifications etc. Even what editor options show up for them. They also get to decide where their text input area goes for TOTAL customisation.

Ignore List: Allows users to keep track of who they are ignoring, and control this option via a list.
Custom Commands: Lets you and your users create their own commands for use. For example, create pre-set warning comments – Staff member types /firstwarning, Text appears saying "This is your first warning for breaking the shoutbox rules. You can view these rules at [link] If you have a question about this warning, please PM myself. Thanks.
Extra Tab Options: The ability to set separate tabs for system notifications and notices is available in the PRO version, fantastic for keeping your chat tab uncluttered.

Detach Shoutbox: Lets you and your users have the shoutbox open in a seperate browser window/tab for easier use etc.

Additional Moderation Commands: The ability to add/edit the sticky notice through the shoutbox.

Advanced Archive Searching: Ability to search by any combination of username, Last X Hours, Start/End date, as well as keyword. Filter searches, sort by criteria etc.

Extended Instance Options: Allows you to have separate notices per instance, set usergroup settings for individual instances, and even set unique staff permissions for each individual instance.
Expanded Context Menus: Lets your member/staff use the context menu to add/update the sticky note, Ban and Unban users, Ignore/Unignore users and prune individual user shouts.

Extra User Chat Room Moderation: Shows a page displaying every use-created chat room, who made it, how many active members/total members it has etc, and options to close it etc.

Complete Feature ListLite

Shoutbox

Post Shouts

Edit / Delete Shouts

Shouts played using HTML5 <audio> tags

PM other users

PM tabs for convo between two users

View Active Users

Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.

Smilies

Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.

Update text styles

Bold

Italic

Underline

Font

Colour

Slash commands

Built-in commands in a drop-down list

/banlist for a list of all users banned from the shoutbox

Context menu for available actions

View Profile

Send PM

Create chat room

Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room

Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.

Tabs

Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.

Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.

Logging

Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.

Archive

View list of all Shouts in the system

Top X Shouters

Shoutbox Statistics

Search Archive

Search by

Phrase

AdminCP

Instance Manager

Different instances on different pages

Chat Room Manager

Assign usergroups to chat rooms

Edit Settings

Which commands to log

Log level

Shouts to display

Shouts to display (Archive)

Shoutbox Height

Shout display order

Shoutbox Refresh Rate

Smilies on / off

PMs on / off

Allowed BBCode controls

Enabled Editor Tools

Maximum [SIZE]

Max characters per shout

Max images per shout

Archive "Top X Shouters" count

Active Users block on/off

Auto-Delete Shouts

Max chat rooms per user

Global sound switch

Play sounds while idle

Per-Usergroup display of moderator actions (like pruning shouts)

Ability to disable the "Chat Access" list

Project Tools integration

Ability to disable Blog notifications

Alternating Shout Background Colours

Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")

Every X Posts

Every X Threads

Every X Members

Show command log

Show banned users

Show shout log

Maintenance

Reset all style customisations

Ban / Silence management in Edit User

Shoutbox Sessions

Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts

Only shows people who perform an action as active

"Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not

Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active

Anonym.To Integration

Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to

Works with BBCode URLs

Displays regular URL while editing shouts

Disallow "ALL CAPS"

Ability to disallow all caps per-instance

Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout

New Slash Command: /resetshouts

Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system

vBShout v6.0.8Fix: Fixed UTF-8 issues some people were having in certain scenariosFix: (Pro) Detached mode would not function correctly if multiple instances existsChange: The mod will now properly close its database connection when returning dataChange: (Pro) Pro-only code will now run independent of the vBulletin hooks system, saving a tiny amount of resources